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The thing with Seirawan Chess (or IAGO Chess, if you want to have more
flexibility in what you do with it), is that it is one of multiple STEPS
that need to be considered.  I will speak of IAGO Chess here, because you
are free to mess with it.  With IAGO Chess, you get a way to bring
reserves into the game.  There is also more board types, pieces types, and
also mutators that also should be considered.  You can also consider
shuffles (Chess960) as another element.  I can also say, add different
formations, as seen in Near Chess and Near vs Normal Chess.

You do ALL of these.  Don't try to presume one minute you can roll out a
single set of rules declared from on high and assume that a community of
players will adopt it.  This approach has been tried over and over, and
doesn't work.  You get certain types picking up a certain following, but
not the whole.  The reason is that the community of players don't own the
set of rules, some person does, or some business does.

I will say here the 'Next Chess' isn't going to be something with its own identity.  What it will be is an evolutionary extension of chess.  It may evolve and eventually break away, but to go 'poof' and deliver it ex-nihilo hasn't shown itself as viable in the centuries of chess being around.  The only way chess did become distinct by Shatranj was by a community of players adding different elements, that were experimented with and adopted.  And, I will add here, unless this CV community works to an evolutionary approach, you are going to be blocked from having a say in the chess world, by the chess world settling upon Speed Chess, and playing around with Bughouse and Chess960 (MAYBE Seirawan also sneaks in).  When this gets settled into, and expect it over the next 10 years for it to be so (if not sooner), expect the Chess community to totally ignore you until at least he 22nd century.  In other words, everyone here will all be dead.

Ok, I will get off my soapbox here by saying, can't people come up with a
list of interchangeable standard parts and everyone experiment and let
whatever configuration arise be the Next Chess?  Or is this topic so bound
by egos that the Next Chess has to belong to one person or one company?